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fleetdm/fleet

Open device management

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra Express gRPC Go React Bundler Go modules Gradle

GitHub topics

#binary-authorization #configuration-management #device-management #gitops #ios #linux

Updated: 2026-10-05
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-07-25
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 3,788 open

6,948

stars

Forks: 1,045
Commits: 28,364 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

CTFd/CTFd

CTFs as you need them

Stack

Python Flask pytest Vite Vue npm pip uv

GitHub topics

#ctf #ctfd #education #flask #security

Updated: 2026-10-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-01-01
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 430 open

6,873

stars

Forks: 2,760
Commits: 1,730 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

AFLplusplus/AFLplusplus

AFL++ is a state-of-the-art fuzzer, and #1 in benchmarks. It was originally based on AFL. Today it comes with qemu 5.1, collision-free coverage, enhanced laf-intel & redqueen, AFLfast++ power schedules, MOpt mutators, unicorn_mode, and a lot more!

Stack

C Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#afl #afl-compiler #afl-fuzz #afl-fuzzer #afl-gcc #fuzz-testing

Updated: 2026-10-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-05-28
History: 5 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 22 open

6,786

stars

Forks: 1,323
Commits: 8,872 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

infobyte/faraday

Open-source and AI-powered cybersecurity tools for offensive security, vulnerability management, and autonomous pentesting. Built by hackers in Latin America, used worldwide.

Stack

Python Celery Flask pytest pip uv

GitHub topics

#appsec #autonomous-agents #autonomous-pentest #collaboration #continuous-scanning #cve

Updated: 2026-10-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-11-06
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 15 open

6,769

stars

Forks: 1,076
Commits: 14,159 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

superagent-ai/superagent

Superagent protects your AI applications against prompt injections, data leaks, and harmful outputs. Embed safety directly into your app and prove compliance to your customers.

Stack

TypeScript Express Next.js React Tailwind CSS npm uv

GitHub topics

#ai #anthropic #guardrails #llm #openai #prompt-injection

Updated: 2026-08-25
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2025-08-19
History: 229 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 20 open

6,767

stars

Forks: 962
Commits: 159 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +5 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

cowrie/cowrie

Cowrie SSH/Telnet Honeypot https://docs.cowrie.org/

Stack

Python PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#attacker #cowrie #cowrie-ssh #deception #decoy #honeypot

Updated: 2026-10-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-11-10
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 58 open

6,595

stars

Forks: 1,077
Commits: 4,369 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

j3ssie/osmedeus

A Modern Orchestration Engine for Security

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Next.js React Bun Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#agentic-ai #attack-surface-management #bugbounty #go #hacking #hacking-tool

Updated: 2026-10-04
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2026-01-18
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

6,595

stars

Forks: 1,037
Commits: 141 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

EdOverflow/bugbounty-cheatsheet

A list of interesting payloads, tips and tricks for bug bounty hunters.

GitHub topics

#bugbounty #infosec #payloads #security

Updated: 2023-09-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-07-13
History: 5 history points
License: CC-BY-SA-4.0
Issues: 12 open

6,557

stars

Forks: 1,621
Commits: 230 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

yeahhub/Hacking-Security-Ebooks

Top 100 Hacking & Security E-Books (Free Download)

GitHub topics

#books #ebooks #hacking #hacking-security-ebooks #kali-linux #penetration-testing

Updated: 2024-07-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-11-25
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 46 open

6,510

stars

Forks: 1,215
Commits: 12 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

lldap/lldap

Light LDAP implementation

AI dev

Stack

Rust Actix Web Cargo

GitHub topics

#authentication #ldap #opaque #rust #security #wasm

Updated: 2026-08-28
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2021-03-02
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 128 open

6,497

stars

Forks: 354
Commits: 1,151 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

cleverhans-lab/cleverhans

An adversarial example library for constructing attacks, building defenses, and benchmarking both

Stack

Jupyter Notebook pytest pip

GitHub topics

#benchmarking #machine-learning #security

Updated: 2024-04-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-09-15
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 46 open

6,455

stars

Forks: 1,390
Commits: 3,203 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

google/syzkaller

syzkaller is an unsupervised coverage-guided kernel fuzzer

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#fuzz-testing #fuzzer #fuzzing #kernel #linux #security

Updated: 2026-10-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-10-12
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 631 open

6,344

stars

Forks: 1,457
Commits: 12,930 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

microsoft/agent-governance-toolkit

AI Agent Governance Toolkit — Policy enforcement, zero-trust identity, execution sandboxing, and reliability engineering for autonomous AI agents. Covers 10/10 OWASP Agentic Top 10.

AI dev

Stack

Python Django FastAPI PydanticAI pytest Cargo .NET SDK Go modules

GitHub topics

#agent-framework #ai-agents #ai-safety #compliance #governance #microsoft

Updated: 2026-09-10
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2026-03-02
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 267 open

6,250

stars

Forks: 1,113
Commits: 2,500 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

Tencent/AI-Infra-Guard

A full-stack AI Red Teaming platform securing AI ecosystems via Agent Scan, Skills Scan, MCP scan, AI Infra scan and LLM jailbreak evaluation.

AI dev

Stack

Python Cobra FastAPI Gin pytest Go modules npm PEP 517

GitHub topics

#agent #agent-security #agentic-ai #ai-infra #ai-red-teaming #ai-safety

Updated: 2026-09-10
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2025-01-02
History: 9 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 37 open

6,214

stars

Forks: 580
Commits: 1,863 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

azukaar/Cosmos-Server

☁️ The Most Secure and Easy Selfhosted Home Server. Take control of your data and privacy without sacrificing security and stability (Authentication, anti-DDOS, anti-bot)

Stack

Go Cobra Express gRPC Go React Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#authentication #cloud #cosmos #reverse-proxy #security #self-hosted

Updated: 2026-09-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-02-11
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 204 open

6,157

stars

Forks: 249
Commits: 999 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

passbolt/passbolt_api

Passbolt Community Edition (CE) API. The JSON API for the open source password manager for teams!

AI dev

Stack

PHP React Symfony Composer npm

GitHub topics

#cakephp #cakephp5 #credentials #passbolt #password #password-manager

Updated: 2026-09-17
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2005-05-15
History: 9 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 26 open

6,147

stars

Forks: 406
Commits: 34,039 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

michenriksen/aquatone

A Tool for Domain Flyovers

Archived

Stack

GitHub topics

#chrome-headless #chromium #golang #osint #reconnaissance #security

Updated: 2022-05-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-06-17
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: Disabled

5,955

stars

Forks: 902
Commits: 120 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

ayn2op/discordo

A lightweight, secure, and feature-rich Discord terminal (TUI) client.

AI dev

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#chat #client #cross-platform #discord #discord-bot #discord-client

Updated: 2026-10-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-07-17
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 36 open

5,829

stars

Forks: 233
Commits: 1,716 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

OlivierLaflamme/Cheatsheet-God

Penetration Testing Reference Bank - OSCP / PTP & PTX Cheatsheet

GitHub topics

#awesome #cheatsheet #cheatsheet-god #hacking #hacking-code #hacking-tool

Updated: 2024-12-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-08-02
History: 5 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 7 open

5,653

stars

Forks: 1,260
Commits: 104 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

NullArray/AutoSploit

Automated Mass Exploiter

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#automation #exploit #exploitation #metasploit #offsec #python

Updated: 2023-05-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-01-30
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 132 open

5,256

stars

Forks: 1,180
Commits: 281 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

libreddit/libreddit

Private front-end for Reddit

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#docker #front-end #privacy #reddit #rust #security

Updated: 2025-02-15
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2020-10-25
History: 8 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 196 open

5,200

stars

Forks: 254
Commits: 958 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

google/google-ctf

Google CTF

Stack

Python Android Django Express Flask Cargo CMake Composer

GitHub topics

#ctf #ctf-challenges #google #security

Updated: 2026-10-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-04-27
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 1 open

5,035

stars

Forks: 597
Commits: 412 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Hack-with-Github/Free-Security-eBooks

Free Security and Hacking eBooks

Archived

GitHub topics

#cloud-security #cyber-security #ebooks #forensics #hackers-handbook #hacking

Updated: 2019-07-10
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-04-21
History: 6 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 3 open

4,998

stars

Forks: 1,090
Commits: 48 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

DefectDojo/django-DefectDojo

Open-Source Unified Vulnerability Management, DevSecOps & ASPM

AI dev

Stack

Python Celery Django Django REST Framework Tailwind CSS npm pip Yarn

GitHub topics

#analytics #appsec #automation #devsecops #django #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-10-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-03-13
History: 5 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 232 open

4,990

stars

Forks: 1,960
Commits: 15,705 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

openziti/zrok

Secure internet sharing made simple.

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra Express Flask gRPC Go Go modules npm PEP 517

GitHub topics

#file-sharing #golang #network #peer-to-peer #reverse-proxy #security

Updated: 2026-10-08
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2022-07-18
History: 78 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 121 open

4,776

stars

Forks: 228
Commits: 4,320 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +9 +0.2%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

aquasecurity/tracee

Linux Runtime Security and Forensics using eBPF

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#bpf #docker #ebpf #golang #kubernetes #linux

Updated: 2026-10-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-09-18
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 125 open

4,638

stars

Forks: 512
Commits: 4,349 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

cerbos/cerbos

Cerbos is an open-core authorization management platform for authorizing every identity and governing every action across applications, gateways, workloads, and AI agents.

Stack

Go Cobra Express gRPC Go Go modules npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#abac #access-control #authorization #authz #authzen #entitlements

Updated: 2026-10-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-01-31
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 62 open

4,609

stars

Forks: 215
Commits: 2,728 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

nolabs-ai/nono

agent runtime security - zero trust, zero setup, zero latency agent sandboxing

AI dev

Stack

Rust Cargo npm

GitHub topics

#agent-runtime-security #agent-sandbox #agent-security #ai-agent-sandbox #ai-agent-security #ai-agents

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2026-02-09
History: 89 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 258 open

4,540

stars

Forks: 304
Commits: 1,839 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +111 +2.5%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +31 +1.7%

Website GitHub

intuitem/ciso-assistant-community

CISO Assistant is a one-stop-shop GRC platform for Risk Management, AppSec, Compliance & Audit, TPRM, BIA, Privacy, and Reporting. It supports 200+ global frameworks with automatic control mapping, including ISO 27001, NIST CSF, SOC 2, CIS, PCI DSS, NIS2, DORA, GDPR, HIPAA, CMMC, and more.

AI dev

Stack

Python Django Django REST Framework pytest Starlette npm PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#audit #automation #bsi #cis #compliance #cybersecurity

Updated: 2026-09-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-09-20
History: 1 history point
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 101 open

4,412

stars

Forks: 827
Commits: 7,765 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

buttercup/buttercup-desktop

:key: Cross-Platform Passwords & Secrets Vault

Archived

Stack

TypeScript Electron Express React npm

GitHub topics

#buttercup #electron #encryption #login #password-manager #password-vault

Updated: 2025-03-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-09-12
History: 11 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 156 open

4,386

stars

Forks: 340
Commits: 2,568 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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